Device for generating gas from crude oil.



No. 843,692. PATENTED FEB. 1-2, 1907.

' M. G. NORTON.

DEVICE FOR GENERATING GAS PROM CRUDE OIL. APPLIOATION rum) JULYB, 1906.

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APPLICATION FILED JULY 2, 1908.

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'MIOHAEL G. NORTON, OF GIBSONBURG, OHIO. DEVlCE FOR GENERATING GAS FROMCRUDE Oil...

Application filed July 2,1906. Serial No. 324.344.

tainnew and useful Improvements in De vices for Generating Gas fromCrude Oil, of which the following is a specification, reference beinghad therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to a device for producing a eombustible'gas orvapor from crude oil and which is especially adapted for use inconjunction with. hydrocarbon-engines to supply the explosive chargesthereto.

The object of the invention is to provide a very simple and el'licientdevice for the pur pose; and to this end it consists in providing asuitable carburetor in which the oil is thoroughly divided and mixedwith air, drawing off the heavy part of the oil and causing thevolatilized portion and air to pass through a separator where the heavyportions of the gaseous vapor are extracted and returned to thecarburetor.

The invention. further consists in the arrangement and combination ofparts and in certain other new and useful features, all as which bodyingthe invention and showing the same operatively connected to anexplosive-engme.

lar view of the separator. Fig. 4 is an encontrolling-valve.

As shown in the drawings, 1 represents the the llv- 1 cylinder, .l-thecrank-slurlt, and 3 wheel, of any ordinary liydroearbon-engine. and 4 isa suitable tank for supplying crude petroleum-oil through a supply-pipe.3 to an oil-pump 6, the piston of which is actuated by a crank on thecrank-shaft of the enginev connected by a connecting-rod 7 to thepisten-rod of said pump. From the oil-pump a pipe 8 leads into a dome 9,secured to a head 10 on theupper end of the cylindrical casing .11 ofthe'carbureter 12, and screwed into aseat in the head and hanging downwithin the casing, with its upper end opening into the dome and itslower open end at a distance Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 12, 1907.

tube 13 of considerably less diameter than the diameter of the casing.\Vithin this tube is secured a series of disks 1 1, made of wiregauze orother suitable material, which fit closely in the tube and through whichthe oil entering the dome of the carburetor must pass on its downwardcourse. A suitable wire or rod 15 extends downward in the axis of thetube,through the disks and is attached at its lower end to a suitablecup-shaped cap 16, which forms a valve to close the lower end of thetube, and the upper end of said rod is attached to an operating-lever17, pivoted in an opening in a pipe 18, extending upward from the upperend ofthe dome to conduet air thereto, said lever serving to raise andlower the valve 16. Openings 19, closed by flaps-20, are provided inopposite sides of the dome to admit air thereto, if desired, and throughwhich the operator may reach and view the interior.

From the lower end of the carlnu'eter-cas ing apipe 21 leads to anysuitable tank or I reservoir 22, into which the heavy part of the ;o1lnot vaporized n passing through the screens ilows by gravity, andleadmgfrom the side of the head of the carburetor is a 1 large pipe23lor-conducting the mixed air hereinafter more lully described,relerence j and volatrhzed oil into the upper end of the being had tothe accompanyingdrawings, in

separator 24, which consists of a vertical cylindrical casing 25',closed at each end and liigure 1 1S aside elevation oi a device cm- 3provided with series of internal coneshaped division walls or diaphragms26, extending across the casing and secured therein Fig. .3 is anenlarged longitudinal ver- 'tical section of the carburetor: big. 3, asimiby forming each with a circuinferential groove 27, boring a hole11]. the casing, and

l pouring Babbitt metal through the hole into larged sectional detail ota portion of the Same, and Fig. 5 alongitudinal section of theformedwith a multiplicity of vertical holes within which are secured tubes25', with their ends extending some distance above and below the(liapluagms and their upper ends lapping by the lower ends of the tubesin the diaphragm above.

. face of each diaphragm at its edge to draw oii any unvaporized Ollwinch may be carried 'over into the separator, and leading from thebottom of the casing is a pipe 31 for conducting the gas into a chamber32 in direct communication with the engine-cylinder. This from thelower'closed end-of the casing, is a chamber 32 has an air-inlet opening33 closed by a valve 34, which is automatically opened suction. in theseparator and carburetor and and closed in the usual manner by anysuitable governor mechanism 35, so that as the speed of the engineincreases the valve will be opened to admit air to the chamber, and thusregulate the strength of the explosive charges and the speed of theengine. A pipe 36 leads into the bottom of the oil-chamber 29 and isconnected at its opposite end to a pump 37, operated by a crank on thecranloshaft of the engine, and the delivery-pipe 38, leading from saidpump, is connected to the deliverypipe Set the oil-punip leading intothe top of the carburetor, so that all oil carried over by the gas intothe separator is separated out and pumped back into the carburetor;

The delivery-stroke of the oil-pump is set slightly in advance of thatof the separator-- pump, and as said separator-pump is of several timesthe capacity of the oil-pump each charge of oil is injected withconsiderable force into the dome of the carbureter by the volume ofmixed oil and gas forced through the delivery-pipe of theseparator-pump, and thus the charges are broken up and dissipatedthroughout the interior of the dome, Where they are thoroughly mixedwith air drawn in through the air-inlet pipe 18 by the suction-stroke ofthe engine and pass down through the screens, which further break up thecharges and take out the globules of heavy oil. In passing through theseparator the heavier parts of the gas and the oil contained thereinsettle down upon the diaphragins and are drawn off through the open ings30 b, the separator-pump, the pure gas passing up into the upper 'endsof the tubes, downward through the same, and out at the bottom of thecasing to the engine, and thus all but the pure highly-explosive mixtureis returned to the carburetor and does not find its way into theengine-cylinder.

A very strong, clean, and highly-explosive mixture is thus obtained fromcrude oil without the necessity of supt'u'heating the same, it beingnecessary to heat the oil only when the temperature is low and for thatpurposc the pipe 8 is formed in a coil and incloscd within a closedcylinder 39, connected to the exhaust of the engine by avalve-controlled pipe 40, provided with a. suitable valve-controlledby-pass pipe 41, adapted to exhaust into the atmosphere direct when itis not desired to heat the coil.

By means of the capor valve 16 the opening into the lower end of theinner tube 13, through which the oil and air ,are drawn by thesuction-stroke of the engine, may be restricted at will, and thus thesuction and consequent'agitating efi'ect increased or diminished tochange the quantity and quality of .the charges, and the speed or theengine is automatically controlled by the opening of thegovernorwalve34, which admits air dialso diluting the ingoing charges.

Having thus fully described the invention, what I claim is 1. Thecombination with a carburetor adapted to receive crude oil and. vaporizethe volatile part thereof, of means for drawing the heavy part of theoil from the carbureter,

a. separator connected to the carb. reter for separating the heavy fromthe lighter part of the mixture received from the carburetor, and meansfor retr rning the heavy part of the nnxtrre'to the CHJbLIGtGl.

2 The combination with a carburete adapted to receive crude oil andvaporize the volatile part thereof, of an oil-pomp, a de'livery-pipeleading from said pump into the carburetor, a separator connected tothecarlnzreter to separate the heavier from the lighter parts oftheniixttre received from the carburetor, a pump connected to the separatorto draw the heavy parts of the mixture therefrom and connected to thedelivcry-pipe of the oil-pn1np to force the said parts into saiddelivery-pipe, said pump being operated so that the oil-p1unp willdischarge in advance of the separator-pinnp.

3. The con'ibination with a carbtreter, of a separator consisting of acasing connected to the carlwrctcr, a diaphragm extending across thecasing, a plzrality of open-ended tubes extending thro: gh the(llzt])lil2lf {li1, and mcans for drawing the oil from the upper surfaceof the diaphragm.

4. The combination with a carln'rctcnof a separator consisting of acasing connected to the carburetor to rcccive mixed air and therefrom, adiapln'agm'in the casing, a plurality of vertical tubes cxtcndingthrough the diaphragm, and a chamber at one side of the casing connectedwithv the interior of the casing adjacent to the upper surface of saiddiaphragm to receive the heavy parts of the mixture.

5. The combination with a: carburetor, of a casing, a pipe connectingtho nppci end of the casing with the nppcr end of tlncarburetcr,diaphragms dividing the intcrior of the casing, a plurality of opcn-cndttbcs cxtending throu h each diaphragm, a chamber at one side of theasing co'mmnnicating through openings in the casing ith the inte- -riorof the casing at the tppcr sidcs of the diaphrai-gins, and a pipeconnecting the said chainht-r and arl :.-rctcr.

(5. The combination with a carbnrcter, of'

the casing with the nppcl' end of the carbiireter. and an outlct-pipc atthe bottom of the casing. a scrics of diaphragms extending across thecasing, a pl rality of open-coded tubes extending throrgh each of said.diaplnagms with the upper ends of the tubes lapping by the lower ends ofthe tubes of the rectly into the chamber 32, thus lessening the diapln'am above, a chamber at one side of the casing communicating with theinterior thereof through holes at the upper sides or" the diaphragms,and a pump connected to said chamber-to draw the contents therefrom anddeliver the same to the carbureter.

7. The combination of a casing closed at each end, an oil-supply pipeopening into the upper end of said casing, a tube of lesser diameterthan the diameter of the casing sus pended therein with its upper endopen to receive the oil and its lower open end at a distance from theclosed lower end of the casing, a series of screens in said tube, meansfor re stricting the opening into the lower end of said tube, and adischarge-pipe for the gas leading from the upper end of the casing.

8. The combination of a casing having a dome at its upper end and closedat its lower end, an air-inlet pipe opening into the dome, an oil-supplypipe opening into the dome, a tube extending downward in the casing andits upper end open into the dome and its lower open end at a distancefrom the lower closed end of the casing, 'a series of discous screens insaid tube, a valve to close the lower end of the tube, a rod extendingupward in the axis of the tube and attached at its lower end to saidvalve, and an operatinglever attached to the upper end of said rod.

9 The combination of a casing having a closed lower end, a head on the uper end of the casing provided with an out et for gas, an open-endedtube secured at its upper end within the head and extending downwardwithin the casing to near the closed lower end thereof, a dome securedto the head over the open end of the tube and provided with openings inits sides closed by flaps, an air- 10. The combination of a carburetorconsisting of a vertical cylindrical casing, an open-ended tube in saidcasing, a dome over the upper open end of said tubehaving an air-inlet,a series of screens in said tube, a valve to close the lower end of saidtube; a

separator consisting of a tubular casing closed at each end, a series ofcone-shaped diap'hragms in said casing, a plurality of tubes extendingvertically through each of said diaphragms, a chamber at one side of thecasing communicating with the interior thereof through openings atthe'upper side of each diaphragm; an oil-sup ly tank; an oil-pump; apipe connecting t e tank and pump; a supply-pipe connecting the pump anddome of the carbureter; a separatorpump; a pipe connecting theseparatorpump and the chamber of the separator; a pipe connecting theseparator-pump and the oil-supply pipe; and means for'operating saidpumps.

In testimony'whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' MICHAEL Gr. NORTQN.

'Witnesses:

John P. BARTLEY, D. D. GRANT.

